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Raging Fire: Yen for Justice
The Hong Kong filmmaker Benny Chan was working on Raging Fire in 2019 when he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer. He died from the...
High on the Hog: Streaming Soul Food
I spent part of this past Juneteenth watching Netflix’s High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, and it felt appropriate to...
Free Guy: Not PC
I started playing SimCity in the early days of the lockdown. I did it out of sheer, soul-crushing boredom and quickly became addicted to the...
Film Shorts // August 4-10, 2021
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Escape From Mogadishu (NR) The title doesn’t sound like it belongs to a Korean film, but the movie dramatizes the real-life ordeal over two...
The Suicide Squad: You Kill Me
Let’s all just pretend that the original Suicide Squad movie never happened, okay? I’m so ready to do that, especially now that I’ve seen...
Annette: La La La Means I Love You
Leos Carax! You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to write about this French filmmaker whose view of life and movies is...
Film Shorts // July 28-August 3, 2021
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Ishq: Not a Love Story (NR) This Telugu-language remake of a 2019 Malayalam romantic thriller stars Teja Sajja, Priya Prakash Varrier, and Ravindra Vijay....
Green Knight: Headless Horseman
I’ve previously aired my issues with British color-blind casting, but it’s doing one good thing: It’s turning Dev Patel into an unstoppable force. The...
Stillwater : Marseillaise
Last week, we had a movie about a straight, working-class father struggling to deal with his child’s homosexuality. This week comes another one, though...
Film Shorts // July 21-27, 2021
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Bo Burnham: Inside (NR) The standup comic directs himself performing a one-man show on various sets during the pandemic. (Opens Friday)
Midnight in the Switchgrass...
